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Despite launching in 2001, the system demanded you play in direct, blinding sunlight just to see your character. Players were forced to buy obnoxious,…
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Manufacturers managed to shrink the borders around our screens by simply moving the border into the screen itself. That little black cutout intruding on your…
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Designed by the very man who created the Game Boy, this obscure Japanese handheld featured an extra set of buttons specifically so you could rotate it…
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You paid for an edge-to-edge display, but the manufacturer lied to you. Even though the physical frame is paper-thin, firing up the screen reveals a thick,…
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The childhood joy of sitting too close to the television was actually just basking in a controlled radiation cannon. CRT monitors used a massive vacuum tube…
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You bought a brilliantly thin, flat panel display, but the mounting base requires the footprint of a small car. The sweeping, aggressive legs designed to keep…
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